From the Big Apple to Big Ben, TaskRabbit is hopping across the Atlantic

Every day at TaskRabbit, we receive requests from all over the world to bring our marketplace to new cities, but one international city has peaked interest beyond all others. That’s why today, we’re thrilled to finally announce that we’re taking a hop across the Atlantic and bringing TaskRabbit to London.

From Shoreditch to Stoke Newington, Bermondsey to Belsize Park, Kensington to Kentish Town, our British Taskers will be out in force shortly and ready to help time-pressed Londoners tackle their to-do lists.

So whether you’re a busy mum in Hampstead who needs someone to deep clean the house, a commuter who needs help with their Christmas wrapping or a career woman in Clapham who simply needs a handyman to assemble IKEA furniture – busy Londoners will be able to outsource these tasks through TaskRabbit and focus on the important things in life, be it family, friends or even pre-Christmas exercise!

We’ve come a long way from our San Francisco start-up roots. Five years on, and we now have 20,000 vetted and approved Taskers in 19 cities across the US. We’ve been looking at how we can burrow into new cities and now we’re ready to bring TaskRabbit to the Capital.

We’ve noticed over the past 5 years that given half a chance, people do want to pitch in and help each other out, particularly in their own communities. So we have converged all the social, location and mobile know-how we have to create TaskRabbit, an online marketplace that connects busy people with safe, reliable professional who will help them get things done and give them more time to focus on what they love.